Antonio Chella

Antonio Chella

Antonio is the head of RoboticsLab and his research interests include cognitive architectures for robotics and Machine Consciousness.

Antonio Chella was born in Florence on March 4, 1961. In 1988 he obtained his laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Palermo and in 1993 he obtained his PhD in Computer Engineering defending a thesis on neural networks for robot vision. From 1992 to 1998 he was a scientific researcher at the University of Palermo, where he became an associate professor in 1998 and a professor in robotics in 2001.

He is the head of RoboticsLab. His main research interests concern the cognitive architectures for robotics.Related research fields are: artificial consciousness; 3D vision systems; neural networks; cooperative robotics; intelligent agent architectures. He is a member of IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, IAS, AI*IA, AICA, SIREN.